Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Richard Welty
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:52:39 -0400 Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But yes, doing it via this mailing list is probably the cheapest option. yes, he just needs to decide how big a hurry he's in. also, if he does decide to hire a consultant, i suggest he pop over to pgsql-jobs and ask there

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Rod Taylor
> 2) You can hire a PG database expert.This will be much faster, but cost > you a lot of money. I wouldn't exactly say "a lot of money". Lots of consulters out there are willing to put in a weeks worth of effort, on site, for significantly less than a support contract with most commercial DB

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Bill, > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database of financial information, and this has literally millions of > entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally > demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find the > c

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Merlin Moncure
Bill wrote: > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database of financial information, and this has literally millions of > entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally > demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find th

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew Hammond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill wrote: | Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a | database of financial information, and this has literally millions of | entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally | demanding processes

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Conway
Bill wrote: Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a database of financial information, and this has literally millions of entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find the commod

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Nuzum
-performance- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:31 PM > To: Josh Berkus > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration > > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Welty
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:31:15 -0500 Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed indicies, but are there any statistics? vacuum analyze is your friend > but for the rather computationally > demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find the > commodity with the highest month

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread jason.servetar
OTECTED] Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a database of financial information, and this has literally millions of entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally demanding processes we

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:31:15 -0500, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database of financial information, and this has literally millions of > entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally > dema

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Bill
ROTECTED]> To: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration > Bill, > > > Any ideas of how I can cluster my database (around 800 GB > > in size so even par

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Bill, > Any ideas of how I can cluster my database (around 800 GB > in size so even partial replication is not really practical)? Um, raise $150,000 to pay for a clustering implementation? Various techniques of "shared memory clustering" have been tried with PostgreSQL, and none work.Neit

[PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Bill
Hi, I am trying to make a cluster out of any database, postgresql or mysql or any other free database.  I have looked at openmosix patched with the migshm patch for shared memory support and it seems that neither work fully.  Postgresql in particular uses "shared memory but not the system se